common language

This page is about the collocation common language

collocation pattern: adjective + noun

Meaning

a language that both you and the person you're talking to can speak

For example

  • Sayoko is Japanese and Bao is Chinese, and their common language is English.

  • English is often the only common language that people from different countries have.

Quick Quiz

A common language is the language that

a. two people use to communicate

b. everyone in the world can speak

c. everybody learns at school
a) two people use to communicate b) everyone in the world can speak c) everybody learns at school

Contributor: Matt Errey